Red Dead Redemption

lol still in chapter 1, not getting a great amount of time to play this but have scheduled myself to hammer it tomorrow.

I had a brief go today, but with my ten yo godson watching I had to refrain from doing any missions or anything other than hunting - which we both love. I did steal a nice top-hat and and sold a pretty decent stage coach.

But at one point my stupid horse decided not to stop at a cliff and tumbled down and died. Purchased an awesome War horse which we named Terry?_.

Immediately upon leaving the stables I was set upon by some O'Driscolls. Normally I'd shy away from shooting anybody in front of the kid but War horse between my legs triggered something inside me and I kicked their ass in rapid style. Then as the moon rose in the sky I posed a profile silhouette with my great horse and top-hat. Photo is now ps4 background.

Wait, you named the horse with an underscore and question mark at the end?

that’s how you do it!

It was something like that yeah, the boy did it by mistake but we liked it so kept it.

i think it's great

imagine if there was a way to get away with adding _? to your name in real life with none of the negative consequences. none of the eyebrow raising or dumb questions about it at bars. just the benefits. red dead redemption 2 is a game where you can get away with it.

i need to buy some more horses, or capture some. for some reason i find myself hoarding money in this game. i love my main horse, who i named and styled after my good life dog pal. she is my main horse and that will not change.

well watch out for those cliffs

I spent heaps of money on the camp. Is it worth it? I mean do future chapters move us to newer places and remove all my hard work?

they do but you might as well spend it, there's nothing to spend money on other than camp upgrades, clothing, and like $5 worth of ammo and horse feed every few days

i'm nearly done with the epilogue, it's a fun chill sesh but super long and doesn't do a great job building on any of the themes of the main story so a lot of it feels a bit pointless. it has a great willie nelson song though.

i definitely heard the colin stetson song a few missions ago

I hoarded so much cash that the whole getting a loan and having to work to pay it off thing in the epilogue made no sense.

Spending money on the camp helps refill the food/medicine/ammo without you doing it directly but not a huge impact. I bought a boat for the camp when you're in the south but there's never any particular point in using it.

I heard this game makes you shave

i never do, but i always try to look as silly as possible

tip: there's a card in every pack of premium cigarettes, incl the one you buy at stores. i wasn't using any cigarettes because of the core damage. discard them immediately and you can keep picking them up/buying them

If you’ve quit smoking irl do you get a rush when you smoke in game? LOL

Inspired by all the jibber jabber on this thread, I returned to the original with the intention of playing some further in. Completed one mission of aimless shooting and then just played poker and liar's dice for a few hours. I think video games are no longer for me.

Maybe y’all already heard this nickname but the Greatest Generation guys were calling RDR2 “Jazz Horse” and I lol’d.

My problem with cigarettes in this game is that you only smoke them for like one second! I want to savor the damned thing

i found the meteor house. gross!

i found a cutesy little cabin with flowerbeds, marked on the map as "roadside brothel" or something. took me a bit to notice the dead body sitting on the porch.

most of the unique little ambient details i've run into so far involve corpses

Well that’s environmental storytelling for ya! You got a skeleton and a toilet, now how do you arrange them

i'm gonna try to beat rdr2 today. i am alone stuck at home for the day so i have all the time in the world. i think i'm about to finish ch 6 but i've been saying that for an hour now.
https://www.twitch.tv/weinventyou

I'm at work :(

i'll be playing aaalllll day

finally beat it late last night. there's a lot to complain about but i managed to play some enormous number of hours, and i'm still riding around after the credits have rolled, hunting legendary animals. so i guess i enjoyed it!

is anyone else still playing? i'm not sure whether to jump into online or just not be a cowboy for a while.

It doesn’t sound like fun and I’m not sure I’ll play it despite enjoying the first one. Nb that’s was the only rockstar game I ever enjoyed

I tried to play this at a friend's house and you had to pull off some street fighter II button combo bullshit just to eat a can of beans

LOL

From all accounts this seems like an enormous time sink and there’s no way I could give the old timey west that much time. It would have to be blade runner 2814 or some shit for me to invest that much of my life

https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbuster-american-west-video-game

Today I met a rancher randomly and he started shooting at me when I wouldn't leave the area, so I killed him. Then I set his pigs free. Who then all proceeded to munch on his corpse.

circle_of_life.wav

glad i found an example of this, which is one of the most clever and poignant details i've seen in this game:

**RDR2 SPOILER ALERT** unbelievable how much detail @RockstarGames has put into Red Dead Redemption 2. First pic is Arthur’s journal entry, Second is John’s entry for the same encounter. Arthur being the more experienced journal writer, his drawing was naturally better. pic.twitter.com/Pw8k2u03zx

— Teo Kıral (@mayo_teo) November 17, 2018

wow! that's awesome.

Do I lose much if I don't play the first game?

imo no

yeah not really. i'm sure the narrative elements don't line up 100% anyway.

"Pinkerton employees 'now have to explain to their young game players why Red Dead Redemption 2 encourages people to murder Pinkertons.'"
Yes parents, video games can be educational https://t.co/qp9cQHXmQ1

— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) January 16, 2019

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183843/red-dead-online-black-character-racism

uggggggggghhhhhh

good kicker, though

as an aside, there's some juicy stuff about the pinkertons in the last (and amazing) david grann book, "killers of the flower moon"

i think this focus on "achievements" runs counter to marston's character. for instance i don't do any of the bounty hunts. what the fuck do i care? i'm basically a criminal myself. i just want to find william williamson.

― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 June 2010 11:37 (eight years ago) Permalink

you can read his discharge letter from the army. his name's not William!

so many of the systems of this game are so strange. found hats are not stolen hats are not crafted hats:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/9w9mjc/havent_found_a_good_guide_for_stolen_hats_yet_so/

100% ~~

How many hours?

I think this might be up there with Witcher 3 for me - just so cathartic and immersive.

On the other hand, I met my brother for a drink last week and he told me he got sexually assaulted in this game. I won't go into further detail but it was fairly graphic.

That happened to a friend of mine and he went back to see if it would happen again but the NPC isn't interested in you any more after the first time.

Yeah my brother said he went back and killed the guy in some elaborate manner.

my wife got knocked out and picked up in a fireman's carry by some rando other player (presumably an 11 yo boy) but she pressed the Die button before they got wherever he was taking her. The Die button seems urgent and key.

kf: i don't even want to know.

with the polar vortex and feb snowfalls i've been quote-unquote working from home quite a bit the past month

also a lot of racism online, no surprise: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183843/red-dead-online-black-character-racism

after dipping my toe in the water in both GTA online and RDR online, i have learned my lesson and will never participate in a rockstar game's online mode ever again.